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388 his poems that one after another took the literary world by storm, his contributions to the leading magazines of the world, his editions of the poems of Keats, Wordsworth, Shelley and Marvell, in the "British Poets" series, and in his extensive foreign travels.

The works of the "poet laureate" are too well known to require scheduled citation. His name is too familiar, and his public record too thoroughly engrafted into the national life to need other than a brief mention.

In 1844 Mr. Lowell was married to Maria, daughter of Abijah and Anna Maria (Howard) White. Her death, at Cambridge, elicited one of Longfellow's most exquisite compositions—"Two Angels." In 1857 he was married to his second wife, Frances Dunlap, niece of Ex-Governor Dunlap of Portland, Maine. She died in England, February, 1885. Of the four children by the first marriage, only one survives: Mabel (wile of Edward Burnett).

In 1877 Mr. Lowell was appointed by President Hayes to represent the national government at the court of Spain, from which in 18S0 he was transferred to the court of St. James. His administration of the delicate and responsible duties of his high mission in London was characterized by tact, marked ability, and was a most pronounced diplomatic and social success. During his residence in England he was chosen rector of the university of St. Andrew's.

LOWELL,, son of John Amory and Susan Cabot (Lowell) Lowell, was born in Boston, October 18, 1824. His mother was the daughter of Francis C. Lowell, who was prominent among those who introduced the cotton manufacture into the United States, and for whom the city of Lowell was named. His great grandfather, Judge John Lowell, was the first judge of the district court for the Massachusetts district, appointed by President George Washington, September 26, 1789. In 1801 he was promoted by President John Adams to be Chief Judge of the circuit court as then existing for the first circuit. He was a member of the convention which formed the constitution of Massachusetts in 1780, and procured the insertion and adoption of the first article of the bill of rights, for the purpose, as he declared, of preventing slavery from being thereafter possible in the State. His son, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was an eminent lawyer, who exercised a powerful influence in moulding public opinion in Massachusetts.

Judge Lowell was fitted for college in the private school of D. G. Ingraham, in Boston, entered Harvard College in 1839, and was graduated in the class of 1843, delivering an English oration. He was admitted to the bar in 1846, and practiced until 1865, when, upon the resignation of Judge Sprague, he was appointed judge of the district court of the Massachusetts district by President Lincoln, this being the last judicial appointment made by him. He was appointed judge of the circuit court for the first circuit by President Hayes, December 16, 1878, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Shepley.

Judge Lowell was married in 1853 to Lucy B., daughter of George B. Emerson, LL. D., and Olivia (Buckminster) Emerson.

Judge Lowell is in the truest sense a jurist. Learned and versatile in all the departments of the law, in the department relating to bankruptcy he is the most distinguished judge in the United States. His decisions are regarded as the leading authority in the country, and his rank in the field of commercial law in its general application is scarcely less high.

LYMAN,, the son of Horace and Elvira (Hubbard) Lyman, of Sunderland, was born at Sunderland, Franklin county, December 13, 1834. His paternal ancestors came over from England in 1630.

Mr. Lyman received his early education in the public schools of Sunderland, and afterwards in Shelburne Falls Academy and Williston Seminary, Easthampton. He acted as clerk in the office of the secretary of the Commonwealth for one year, after which he became principal of an academy in St. Clair, Michigan.

He then studied law with Davis & Allen in Greenfield, and was admitted to the bar in 1861. In 1866 he was elected clerk of courts for Franklin county, which position he still holds. He was a member of the school committee of Greenfield from 1874 to 1885.

He was married in 1871 to Martha L., daughter of William W. and Lucy (Bartram) Branch, of Madison, Ohio, by whom he has four children: Edward Branch, Ethel, Henry William, and Helen Lyman.

LYMAN,, son of Ahira and Theresa Lyman, was born at Park Hill, Northampton, Hampshire county, March 27, 1850.

He received a common and high school education in the schools of Northampton